Everything You Need to Know About the New Apple iPhone 5S & iPhone 5C

After months of speculation, the highly anticipated Apple iPhone 5S has been officially unveiled. At first glance Apple's new flagship phone, the iPhone 5S, looks very similar to the previous iPhone 5. But take a closer look and you'll notice there's an array of hardware upgrades both inside and out, including a fingerprint sensor, improved camera, a new color to choose from, and a brand new operating system. We've gathered up all the highlights from today's Apple event below, outlining everything you need to know about the iPhone 5S and its colorful and plastic sibling, the iPhone 5C...

The Apple iPhone 5S:

New Fingerprint Scanner: The biggest news today was the announcement of the new Home button, now also a fingerprint scanner called Touch ID. To unlock the iPhone using the built-in fingerprint reader, users can now click, then hold either a finger or thumb onto the 500 ppi resolution touch capacitive sensor for a few second as a biometric authentication log-in. Users will also have the option to turn this feature off to use a Passcode or swipe to unlock like previous models.

An interesting addition within is the M7 motion co-processor, a sidekick to the main A7 processor designed to continually measure motion data using the accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass, alongside the GPS chip, all designed for more accurate health and fitness applications.

New iSight Camera: Apple has upgraded the iSight camera with a 5-element lens with f/2.2 aperture and 15% larger sensor area compared to the previous iPhone 5. Bigger pixel capture means improved light and color with less noise. The camera preemptively adjusts for exposure, offering DSLR style auto-focus with auto-image stabilization, burst mode (10 fps), and "best photo" feature (automatically picks sharpest/best photo taken out of a series). Panorama photos are now as large as 28 megapixels in resolution, with a square shooting mode (Instagram friendly), and an array of built-in photo filters.

Dual LED Flash: True tone flash offers a second LED unit for more accurate and improved low light performance. One LED is white and cool, second LED is amber and warm, with camera automatically using mixture of both for an optimal image when only low light is available.

Slow Motion Video Capture: The new iPhone 5S is capable of capturing 720p video at 120 frames per second, with new slow-motion capability (with normal 1080p at 30fps).